Quantum field theory
Theoretical framework
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| 2025 |
CP violation
The LHCb experiment discovered CP violation in baryons, expanding the understanding of this fundamental particle physics phenomenon.
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| March 2025 |
CP violation
LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in baryon decays with a deviation from zero of 5.2 standard deviations.
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| 2022 |
False vacuum
Reanalysis of 2016 LHC run data yielded a revised top quark mass measurement of 171.77 GeV, remaining in the metastable zone but close to the vacuum stability line.
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| 2021 |
False vacuum
A paper by Rostislav Konoplich and others postulated that the area between large black holes on the verge of colliding could provide conditions to create bubbles of 'true vacuum', with intersecting surfaces potentially forming micro-black holes that would evaporate by emitting Hawking radiation.
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| 2020 |
CP violation
T2K Collaboration reported first indications of CP violation in leptons through neutrino beam experiments, though the results were not yet precisely determined.
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| 2020 |
Effective field theory
C.P. Burgess published the book 'Introduction to Effective Field Theory' through Cambridge University Press.
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| 2019 |
False vacuum
Research found that while small non-spinning black holes may increase true vacuum nucleation rate, rapidly spinning black holes will stabilize false vacuums to decay rates lower than expected for flat space-time.
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| March 2019 |
CP violation
LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in charmed D^0 decays, with a deviation from zero of 5.3 standard deviations.
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| 2018 |
False vacuum
System Erasure includes false vacuum decay as a narrative concept in their video game 'ZeroRanger'.
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| 2017 |
False vacuum
A subsequent study indicated that a bubble would collapse into a primordial black hole rather than originate from it, either through ordinary collapse or by bending space to break off into a new universe.
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| 2016 |
False vacuum
LHC run data collection, which would later be reanalyzed to provide more precise measurements of particle masses.
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| 2016 |
Effective field theory
A.A. Petrov and A. Blechman published the book 'Effective Field Theories' through World Scientific publishing house.
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| 2015 |
False vacuum
Alastair Reynolds incorporates false vacuum decay in his science fiction novel 'Poseidon's Wake'.
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| 2015 |
False vacuum
A study pointed out that vacuum decay rate could be vastly increased in the vicinity of black holes, which could serve as nucleation seeds for potentially catastrophic vacuum decay triggered by primordial black holes.
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| 2013 |
CP violation
LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in strange B meson decays.
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| 2012 |
False vacuum
Discovery of the Higgs boson, allowing physicists to validate the electroweak interaction stability criteria against experimental data. The electroweak interaction became considered the most promising candidate for a metastable fundamental force.
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| 2011 |
CP violation
LHCb experiment at CERN reported a hint of CP violation in neutral D meson decays using partial Run 1 data.
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